Marranos on the Moradas
Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States from 1590 to 1890
Marranos on the Moradas
Secret Jews and Penitentes in the Southwestern United States from 1590 to 1890
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Two groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who they truly were. Both now declare their true identities, yet raise hostility. The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practices bloody rites of self-flagellation and crucifixion, but claim this is a misrepresentation and that they are a community and a charitable organization. Marranos, an ambiguous and complicated population of Sephardic descendants, claim to be anousim. Both peoples have a complex, shared history. This book…mehr
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- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Academic Studies Press
- Seitenzahl: 520
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 957g
- ISBN-13: 9781934843321
- ISBN-10: 1934843326
- Artikelnr.: 34795203
- Verlag: Academic Studies Press
- Seitenzahl: 520
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 957g
- ISBN-13: 9781934843321
- ISBN-10: 1934843326
- Artikelnr.: 34795203
s Ludibrium Midrashed. Machines, Apparatus and Contraptions: Instruction, Construction and Destruction. Ludibrium: a machine to see and feel insults. Bricolage, Jonglerie and other Gadgets. Tikkun ha-olam, ha-nefesh, ha-goof, ha-shem. The Contraption that Failed. Chapter IV. ROSSCURRENTS AND UNDERCURRENTS. Section 1. The Half-Way Markers. Penitentes, Thaipusam, and the Fillipino Crucifiers: Ecstasy, Agony and Their Social and Psychological Significance as Festivals of Blood and Pain. Thaipusam. Filipino Flagellants and Self-Crucifiers. Penitentes of the Southwestern United States. Enargeia versus energeia. Religions of the Father and of the Son. The Argument thus Far. Section 2. A Survey of Fuzzy Jews in Colonial America. Concealing, Preserving and Reshaping. Wachtel
s Sensitive Study of Souvenirs. Zeugma and the Marrano Complex. Crypto-Jews and Marranos in Portuguese America. From Toleration to Expulsion in the French Zones. Jews in Dutch America.
Brokers of the World
in a Broken and Baroque World. Chapte r V. PENITENTES AND THE CRAZY THINGS THEY DO: OR, HOW TO BE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN AT THE SAME TIME. Two Ways of Being Jewish in a Non-Jewish World. Rambam vs Ramban: Who Won the Debates?. The Apparent and the Concealed. The Sacred and the Secret. What Happened to Yemen. The Metamorphosis of Old Sepharad. A Heritage of Guilt. The Mean Son
s Question. Chapter VI. FESTIVALS OF BLOOD HERE AND BLOODY TRIALS THERE: PLAYING ROLES AND ROLLING ALONG. A Rhetoric of Blood. Multiple Personalities, Careers and Strategies of Dissimulation. Penitence and Piety. Making History out of Midrash. Historicity, Hysteria and Histrionics. Dormant Memories and Midrashim. Chapter VII. REACHING TOWARDS A CONCLUSION AND SOME NEW QUESTIONS. In Search of the Bizarre and the Uncanny. The World Beneath the Surface of the World. Delusion, Child
s Play, or Enargeia. Troubled Children of the New World. Delusions in the New World. Children
s Games and Delusions. Children among the Marranos: A Psychohistorical Problem. Incomplete Mourning and Unresolved Grief: Marranos and Crypto-Jews in Exile on the Moradas. The Clinical Problem. New Synthetic Approach Needed. Components of the New Approach. The Midrashing Machine. Chapter VIII. EPILOGUE. Meditations and Speculations. Midrash or Mishmosh? Habits of Mind. Paradigms for Jews in a Non-Jewish World. Midrashing the Midrash. Mythos. Bibliography. Index.
s Ludibrium Midrashed. Machines, Apparatus and Contraptions: Instruction, Construction and Destruction. Ludibrium: a machine to see and feel insults. Bricolage, Jonglerie and other Gadgets. Tikkun ha-olam, ha-nefesh, ha-goof, ha-shem. The Contraption that Failed. Chapter IV. ROSSCURRENTS AND UNDERCURRENTS. Section 1. The Half-Way Markers. Penitentes, Thaipusam, and the Fillipino Crucifiers: Ecstasy, Agony and Their Social and Psychological Significance as Festivals of Blood and Pain. Thaipusam. Filipino Flagellants and Self-Crucifiers. Penitentes of the Southwestern United States. Enargeia versus energeia. Religions of the Father and of the Son. The Argument thus Far. Section 2. A Survey of Fuzzy Jews in Colonial America. Concealing, Preserving and Reshaping. Wachtel
s Sensitive Study of Souvenirs. Zeugma and the Marrano Complex. Crypto-Jews and Marranos in Portuguese America. From Toleration to Expulsion in the French Zones. Jews in Dutch America.
Brokers of the World
in a Broken and Baroque World. Chapte r V. PENITENTES AND THE CRAZY THINGS THEY DO: OR, HOW TO BE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN AT THE SAME TIME. Two Ways of Being Jewish in a Non-Jewish World. Rambam vs Ramban: Who Won the Debates?. The Apparent and the Concealed. The Sacred and the Secret. What Happened to Yemen. The Metamorphosis of Old Sepharad. A Heritage of Guilt. The Mean Son
s Question. Chapter VI. FESTIVALS OF BLOOD HERE AND BLOODY TRIALS THERE: PLAYING ROLES AND ROLLING ALONG. A Rhetoric of Blood. Multiple Personalities, Careers and Strategies of Dissimulation. Penitence and Piety. Making History out of Midrash. Historicity, Hysteria and Histrionics. Dormant Memories and Midrashim. Chapter VII. REACHING TOWARDS A CONCLUSION AND SOME NEW QUESTIONS. In Search of the Bizarre and the Uncanny. The World Beneath the Surface of the World. Delusion, Child
s Play, or Enargeia. Troubled Children of the New World. Delusions in the New World. Children
s Games and Delusions. Children among the Marranos: A Psychohistorical Problem. Incomplete Mourning and Unresolved Grief: Marranos and Crypto-Jews in Exile on the Moradas. The Clinical Problem. New Synthetic Approach Needed. Components of the New Approach. The Midrashing Machine. Chapter VIII. EPILOGUE. Meditations and Speculations. Midrash or Mishmosh? Habits of Mind. Paradigms for Jews in a Non-Jewish World. Midrashing the Midrash. Mythos. Bibliography. Index.